Overview
This concept of using body mass ratios to determine potential feeding links between species was primarily developed by Rohr et al. (2010) and has become quite popular in paleo settings (Yeakel et al. 2014; Pires et al. 2015)
Methods
Example
References
Pires, Mathias M., Paul L. Koch, Richard A. Fariña, Marcus A. M. de Aguiar, Sérgio F. dos Reis, and Paulo R. Guimarães. 2015. “Pleistocene Megafaunal Interaction Networks Became More Vulnerable After Human Arrival.” Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 282 (1814): 20151367. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.1367.
Rohr, Rudolf Philippe, Heike Scherer, Patrik Kehrli, Christian Mazza, and Louis-Félix Bersier. 2010. “Modeling Food Webs: Exploring Unexplained Structure Using Latent Traits.” The American Naturalist 176 (2): 170–77. https://doi.org/10.1086/653667.
Yeakel, Justin D., Mathias M. Pires, Lars Rudolf, Nathaniel J. Dominy, Paul L. Koch, Paulo R. Guimarães, and Thilo Gross. 2014. “Collapse of an Ecological Network in Ancient Egypt.” PNAS 111 (40): 14472–77. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1408471111.